A reproduction of shows featuring legendary folk singer Bruce Utah Phillips. A collage of rants, poetry, tales and reminiscences mixed with little known music and talk from over 1,000 tapes of everything under the sun, from tramping and labor (historic an
An interview with Pete Seeger, co-founder of the 1946 People's Song movement, which became the seed bed for the folk music revival.
Song tales about the West - my West. Diamond Mountain to old Nebrasky...oh, and some of the unknown places.
Every-thing from Simon and Garfunkle in Hebrew to George Gobel's "You Are My Sunshine." Also Baby Gramps will show you how to go wash an elephant.
Includes one of the best songs I ever heard, "Cry of the Morning."This program goes out to the young people who need to know what the boss has in store for them.
Musical Saw, Pompelli's Cave, Talkin' Ma Nature-who knows where the human mind will take you.
Tramp songs and lore with an edge. The life of a "jolly hobo" -oh,yeah.
Here you get Mickey Katz and Yiddish parody, kids on strike, and Dan Bern's extremely moving ballad about the school shooting in Colorado.
From Lake George to Timbuctu, a protracted dither including Judi Bari's scathing rant on Francis Bacon.
What I know about the Hawaiian music. Also an interview with the prime minister of the reinstated government of Hawaii.
This one's a live concert of The Rose Tattoo, a conclave of me and some old friends of the road singing and yarning about life on the trains.
Here are concert singers John McCormack, Jan Pierce, and Paul Robeson, plus rare old pieces from Peter Dawson and Clifford Jackson.
A mix of labor, civil rights, and oddball cowboy songs. Don't miss the rare paean from Broke Toe Rezo himself.
Ruminations, perturbations, and rants about homelessness, including Terminal Neon by the great John Trudell
Some ideas on why stories work, how they're hung together. From the roar of Johnny Handle's Jordy sermon to the quiet of Kathryn Windham
Songs and stories of political prisoners to nurture the spirit of civil disobedience.
Something of everything. My very own "NPR Talking Blues," rolling on to Studs Terkel reciting "The Scab's Lament."
From red batting to down sizing, the labor movement continues to growl and sing.
A winding tale from "An Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight" to Walking Jim Stolz's "The Spirit Is Still on the Run."
More new tramp songs from Mark Ross, Kuddie, Luther the Jet, Larry Penn, and Al Grierson.
Songs, stories and poems collected while traveling through Maine several months ago.
My first trumpet recital and field recordings from the jungles of Columbia. This one makes no sense.
What are they? How do they grow and change? I define this once and for all.
Here's a collection of songs and stories from some of my oldest friends, including "A Poem in Early Spring" by my wife Joanna Robinson.
Off again with old and new: hobo songs, poems, and lore, including Nat Willis, Josh White, and Rube Waddle (who captures the madness.)
Ferlinghetti, Lenny Bruce, Robert Service, Gill Scott Heron, and great poets you have likely never heard off.
From the Spanish conquest to the Farmworkers' picket line, from Julia Butterfly to the Suburban Shaman, songs to explain some kind of real California.
I'll take you from Reverend Gary Davis to throwing the TV out the window.
Songs ranging from the railroad strike of 1887 to the battle of Seattle.
Behan singing Behan, Robert Service reciting his own work, and songs of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad.
A collection of old songs from Australia: drovers, drunks Anzacs, and the first people.
World War I songs, stories, poems, and rants, mostly from original material.
The wanderer's mail service, Feather Ben, and new songs about tramping.
Walmart, the boycott at Dunn's Department Store, and my first experience with job action.
Personal reflection and songs about wandering the West, including the the amazing but true story of the dreaded Moscow Hold.
This is all Christian music intended to restore my faith that this oft benighted faith might yet attain a useful social role.
The sound of words well spoken: Gamble Rodgers, Judi Bari, Norman Thomas and Lord Buckley (as Mahatma Gandhi.)
A Singing interview with busker, carpenter, hobo, song-crafter, and longtime friend Bodie Wagner.
A recording from a live concert that I did in Ithaca, New York, which became the groundwork for my collaboration with Ani DiFranco on "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere."
Spoken word, poetry, including "Upon the Wooded Hill" by my wife, Joanna Robinson, and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew'" recited by Lord Buckley.
Here's a collection of homemade songs I seldom get around to singing.
The music of language spoken with humor, pathos and dignity. Myron Cohen to Vachal Lindsay.
This program is just me, a mic, and a guitar. Tales with songs to match.
Speaking and singing out for peace, Pete Seeger, Victor Jara, "Smoke-Jumpers," and Chickens for Peace.
Labor songs, from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to the Great Ohio Fast Food Fire.
A collection of tales and songs from the, skids, alleys, and missions. Rare tramp songs from Sophie Tucker and Al Jolson.
The third episode is Franklin Roosevelt from 11 cent cotton, 40 cent meat to the 30-minute recording of "The Unforgotten Man" from the National Guardian.
© 2020-2025 Ivy Podcast Discovery LLC
